Montypythonoides Smith & Plane, 1985

Schleip, Wulf D. & O'Shea, Mark, 2010, Annotated checklist of the recent and extinct pythons (Serpentes, Pythonidae), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy, and distribution, ZooKeys 66, pp. 29-80 : 44

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.66.683

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8C892D2D-F31B-A696-2BC3-222AC07AA84D

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scientific name

Montypythonoides Smith & Plane, 1985
status

[subjective junior synonym of Morelia]

Genus Montypythonoides Smith & Plane, 1985 [subjective junior synonym of Morelia]

Type species:

Montypythonoides riversleighensis Smith & Plane, 1985 [extinct species]

Remarks:

Smith and Plane (1985: 194) stated that this genus “… shows strong relationship with species of Morelia ". Also see Morelia riversleighensis .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Squamata

Family

Pythonidae